This issue neatly summarises a significant problem faced by many organisations. Despite the best efforts of an organisation’s leadership, the message can become lost on its way to front line staff. That is why the focus for a robust compliance culture should not only be on the tone from the top, but also the tone from the middle.
Specifically, it should be the role of middle management to; identify and communicate the compliance risks that arise in their areas of responsibility within the business; to encourage their staff to raise compliance concerns to the management team......
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In China bribes are often offered and accepted for the sale and procurement of medical devices and pharmaceuticals. Doctors or managers of hospitals and clinics who accept bribes to buy, use, or recommend the Healthcare Products have been known to prescribe or even over-prescribe procedures that warrant use of such products. As a result, products supported by bribery sell more quickly and at a higher price than products for which lower or no bribes are paid.
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In January 2010, 15 of the 16 Liuzhou factories
entered into a collusion agreement with Xian Yi Ge Food Factory to raise the
price of rice powder, and Xian Yi Ge adopted carrot-and-stick measures to make
sure the agreement would be executed. As a result of the agreement,
the colluding rice powder factories issued notice of a 25 percent-plus price
increase to downstream business operators, including rice powder wholesalers,
retailers, rice powder food peddlers and stores.
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Trade or
industry associations bring substantial benefits to their members and enhance
competition in the economic sectors they represent. However, member activities can also create
major antitrust risks that are subject to aggressive enforcement and penalties
under China’s Antimonopoly Law (AML).
This article shows how associations and their members can manage these
risks through a compliance program that defines acceptable and prohibited
activities.
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An "exclusive sales arrangement" in this article, is defined as an arrangement where a seller/trader provides a certain economic benefit to its counterparty in exchange for the counterparty's promise not to sell a competitor's products. If the seller/trader is a business operator with a dominant market position, an exclusive sales arrangement may be considered an abusive action under China's Anti-monopoly Law because it restricts the counterparty to conduct transactions only with the dominant market position operator or other businesses that the operator designates.
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Data
Privacy should not only consider mere Data Protection but also contractual principles.
And one of the oldest and most fundamental contractual principles is “do ut des”
which is Latin and goes back to ancient Roman Law meaning that there is or
should be a certain balance between what you give and what you get in return.
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The campaign, codenamed “Fox Hunt 2014”, was launched on July 22, 2014, and is supposed to last for about 180 days. By July 29 – the 100 days anniversary, the campaign witnessed 180 overseas fugitives arrested (104 of 180) by or surrendering themselves (76 of 180) to the Chinese police.
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The recent enhanced provisions enacted under the Personal Data Protection Act 2012 (“the PDPA”) has provided some clarity as to the standards of compliance expected of organisations that have to transfer personal data collected in Singapore to a country or territory outside Singapore. The basic principle, known as the Transfer Limitation Obligation, prohibits an organisation from transferring any personal data outside of Singapore except in accordance with requirements prescribed under the PDPA. The purpose of such requirements is to “ensure that organisations provide a standard of protection to personal data so transferred that is comparable to the protection under [the PDPA]” (“the Comparable Protection Standard”).
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